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HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner John Harries (Shon Harri Shon) was probably born at Pantycoy (Pant-coi), Cwrt-y-cadno, Carmarthenshire, and was baptised at Caeo on 10 April 1785. He was the eldest of the six children of Henry Jones (Harry John, Harry Shon), Pantycoy (1739-1805), a mason, and his wife Mary Wilkins. He received a relatively formal education, educated at The Cowings, Commercial Private Academy, Caio, until he was
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer His father, who came from Llangadock, Carmarthenshire, to Talgarth, Brecknock, c. 1700, is called 'Howell Powell alias Harris' in the Talgarth parish register; he married Susanna Powell of Trefeca-fach in 1702. Their eldest son, Joseph Harris and another son, Thomas also made names for themselves. Howel, their youngest son, was born 23 January 1714 and was educated at Llwyn-llwyd. From 1732 to
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint member of the Cymmrodorion Society. He died 26 September 1764; he was buried in the Tower. His wife (died May 1763) was Anne, daughter and co-heiress of his former neighbour Thomas Jones of Tredustan. Their daughter, ANNA MARIA HARRIS, married SAMUEL HUGHES (he was one of the witnesses of the marriage of Elizabeth, Howel Harris's daughter); to her was left the property of her uncle Thomas Harris; and
HARRIS, THOMAS (1705 - 1782) sheriff of Brecknock, and bought the estates of Trevecka and Tregunter, rebuilding Tregunter mansion in 1770. His life in London had been irregular, he was married, but it is not known who his wife was, nor when she died, and he had at least three children. One of these, Elizabeth Robinson, associated with the Trevecka community during her residence at Tregunter; another, Thomas Robinson, a drunken boor
HARRISON, RICHARD (1743 - 1830), Wesleyan Methodist local preacher was one of the first to expound Wesley's Arminianism in North Wales, and his counsel and assistance were invaluable to Evan Roberts, Denbigh, Edward Jones, Bathafarn, (1778 - 1837), Owen Davies (1752 - 1830), and John Hughes (1776 - 1843).
HARRY, GEORGE OWEN (c. 1553 - c. 1614), antiquary According to the pedigree which he himself supplied to Lewis Dwnn, he was the son of Owain ap Harri of Llanelly and Maud, daughter of Phillip ap John ap Thomas of ' Hendre Mor,' Gower. He was instituted into the rectory of Whitchurch in Cemais, Pembrokeshire, on 18 March 1584, on the presentation of George Owen of Henllys. He was also rector of Llanfihangel Penbedw in the same neighbourhood
HARRY, JOSEPH (1863 - 1950), schoolmaster and Independent minister some time at the Lancashire College in Manchester. By 1887 he had returned to Carmarthen as a teacher under J.C. Thomas at Parcfelfed school. In 1888, he was ordained as the minister of the English congregational church, Mount Pleasant, Hirwaun. He resigned his ministry in 1892 when he won a science scholarship to the University College, Cardiff. He probably went with J.C. Thomas to Weston in 1894
HARRY, MILES (1700 - 1776), Baptist minister charged with causing a riot at Pontypool, was acquitted at the Monmouth Assizes in August 1739. He collaborated with his brother John Harry and with John Phillips in a Welsh version (1725) of Alleine's Some Discoveries. He has had no biographer, but his successor at Pen-y-garn, David Jones (1741 - 1792), wrote an elegy: 'Marwnad y Parchedig Mr. Miles Harries o Drosnant' (Carmarthen, 1777).
HARTMANN, EDWARD GEORGE (1912 - 1995), historian and promoter of Welsh-American relations Edward George Hartmann was born on 3 May 1912 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA, the son of Louis Hartmann (1877-1954) and his wife Catherine (née Jones-Davies, 1877-1940). Catherine was three years old when her family emigrated to the United States. Her father, Edward R. Jones, came from Penhernwenfach, near Llanwrtyd Wells, in Breconshire. Edward Hartmann recalled that Catherine's mother, Jane
HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor Agriculture of the County of Pembroke with Observations on the Means of its Improvements, is still valuable as a detailed survey of conditions at the time. It provides, for instance, the first record of an agricultural society in Pembrokeshire, founded in 1784. Hassall participated as a volunteer in lord Cawdor's march to Fishguard when the French landed in 1797, and was the first to meet Thomas Knox in the
HAVARD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1889 - 1956), bishop
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author . Prys-Jones), she used traditional forms with an effect which occasionally echoed W.H. Davies, leading 'Wil Ifan' (William Evans) to call her 'Gwent's Second Voice'.

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